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The really funny part is how the New Republic got suckered by such a dumb photoshop! Naturally they blamed it on twitter.

On the other hand, maybe golfing in Hawaii does = skeet shooting at Camp David....

BTW, I don't shoot skeet, but I've never heard the phrase "...we do skeet shooting...".

Gasp, could it be that Obama is lying through his teeth about his "skeet shooting?" Actually, don't recall his going to Camp David all that much, at least not reported by the MSM. That's probably more of the lies. Does that man even know how to tell the truth?

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I highly doubt that Obama would agree to anything that could benefit the NRA. I think that the Red Cross/Hurricane Sandy funds would be a more likely cause, because it wouldn't be partisan.

If it is for a non-partisan charity, who cares who wins the match? Even if such an event happened and she won, all it proves is she can shoot a gun better than he can. BFD.

Well, yes, especially since he is lying. Breitbart had a very interesting point about this:

t is unclear whether Obama meant to include himself in his response; he is not directly quoted as saying he personally went shooting, but that "we"--people staying at Camp David--did so. He did not include or exclude himself specifically.

But if Obama did, indeed, mean to refer to himself, it would not be the first time he has boasted of his sporting knowledge or prowess--often without the evidence to back him up.

He has long claimed to be a fan of the Chicago White Sox, for example, but could not name a single White Sox player when asked, and incorrectly referred to the name of their home stadium as “Cominskey Field.” His basketball skills are also somewhat oversold: NBA commissioner David Stern said President Obama is “not as good as he thinks he is.”

In his infamous bowling stunt during the Democratic primary in 2008, then-Sen. Obama bowled a 37, rolling his first ball straight into the gutter as the cameras rolled. Later, in an appearance on The Tonight Show, Obama mocked his performance as being worthy of the “Special Olympics,” a remark for which he was criticized and later apologized

It would be nice if someone in the media were willing to call him on this, instead of insisting that he's now the reincarnation of Carlos Hathcock (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Hathcock), but this is how personality cults work, and the press will continue to support any fabrication of prowess by the Dear Leader.

It would be nice if someone in the media were willing to call him on this, instead of insisting that he's now the reincarnation of Carlos Hathcock (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Hathcock), but this is how personality cults work, and the press will continue to support any fabrication of prowess by the Dear Leader.

The New Republic has been embarrassed quite a bit by their biases over the years:

Michael Straight
New Republic editor Michael Whitney Straight (1948 to 1956) was later discovered to be a spy for the KGB, recruited into the same network as Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Kim Philby, and Anthony Blunt.[32] Straight's espionage activities began at Cambridge during the 1930s; he later claimed that they ceased during World War II. Later, shortly before serving in Kennedy administration, he revealed his past ties and turned in fellow spy Anthony Blunt. In return for his cooperation, his own involvement was kept secret and he continued to serve in various capacities for the US Government until he retired. Straight admitted to his involvement in his memoirs; however, subsequent documents obtained from the former KGB after the fall of the Soviet Union indicated that he drastically understated the extent of his espionage activities.[33][34]

[edit] Ruth Shalit plagiarism
In 1995, writer Ruth Shalit was fired for repeated incidents of plagiarism and an excess of factual errors in her articles.[35]

[edit] Stephen Glass scandal
In 1998, features writer Stephen Glass was revealed in a Forbes Digital investigation to have fabricated a story called "Hack Heaven". A TNR investigation found that most of Glass' stories had used or been based on fabricated information. The story of Glass's fall and TNR editor Chuck Lane's handling of the scandal was dramatized in a 2003 film Shattered Glass, based on a 1998 article in Vanity Fair.[36]

[edit] Lee Siegel
In 2006, long-time contributor, critic, and senior editor Lee Siegel, who had maintained a blog on the TNR site dedicated primarily to art and culture, was revealed by an investigation to have collaborated in posting comments to his own blog under an alias aggressively praising Siegel, attacking his critics and claiming not to be Lee Siegel when challenged by an anonymous detractor on his blog.[37][38] The blog was removed from the website and Siegel was suspended from writing for the print magazine.[39] He resumed writing for TNR in April 2007. Siegel was also controversial for his coinage "blogofascists" which he applied to "the entire political blogosphere", though with an emphasis on leftwing or center-left bloggers such as Daily Kos and Atrios.[40]

[edit] Spencer Ackerman
In 2006, associate editor Spencer Ackerman was fired by Foer. Describing it as a "painful" decision, Foer attributed the firing to Ackerman's "insubordination": disparaging the magazine on his personal blog,[41] saying that he would “skullfuck” a terrorist's corpse at an editorial meeting if that was required to "establish his anti-terrorist bona fides" and sending Foer an e-mail where he said—in what according to Ackerman was intended to be a joke—he would “make a niche in your skull” with a baseball bat. Ackerman, by contrast, argued that the dismissal was due to “irreconcilable ideological differences.” He believed that his leftward drift as a result of the Iraq War and the actions of the Bush administration was not appreciated by the senior editorial staff.[42] Within 24 hours of being fired by The New Republic, Ackerman was hired as a senior correspondent for a rival magazine, The American Prospect.

[edit] Scott Thomas Beauchamp controversy
Main article: Scott Thomas Beauchamp controversy
In July 2007, after The New Republic published an article by an American soldier in Iraq titled "Shock Troops," allegations of inadequate fact-checking were leveled against the magazine. Critics alleged that the piece contained inconsistent details indicative of fabrication. The identity of the anonymous soldier, Scott Thomas Beauchamp, was revealed. Beauchamp was married to Elspeth Reeve, one of the magazine’s three fact-checkers. As a result of the controversy, the New Republic and the United States Army launched investigations, reaching different conclusions.[43][44][45]
As of December 1, 2007, an article titled "The Fog of War" and bearing the byline of Franklin Foer, postdate December 10, 2007, has been available for professional critique. In the article, Foer writes that the magazine can no longer stand behind the stories written by Beauchamp.

The Beauchamp story was particularly egregious, as it involved fabricated stories meant to put troops in a bad light and undermine the war effort, and because TNR tried to stonewall the army investigators while claiming that the stories were true. The army found otherwise:

A July 31, 2007 memorandum from Major John D. Cross, the Investigating Officer, entitled "Legal Review of AR 15-6 Investigation Regarding Allegations of Soldier Misconduct Published in The New Republic" found [1]:

That the incident of blatant disrespect for a disfigured woman in the FOB Falcon DFAC is a tale completely fabricated by Private Beauchamp. (The New Republic issued a correction saying the story took place in Kuwait, not Iraq.)

That the desecration of human remains and the discovery of a "Saddam-era dumping ground" is false.

That the deliberate targeting of wild dogs is completely unfounded.

That Private Beauchamp desired to use his experiences to enhance his writing and provide legitimacy to his work possibly becoming the next Hemmingway [sic].

That Private Beauchamp is not a credible source for making the allegation he wrote about in "Shock Troops." He admitted that he was not an eyewitness to the targeting of dogs and only saw animal bones during the construction of Combat Outpost Ellis. Combined with the piece of fiction that he wrote on 8 May 2006 on his blog, I find that Private Beauchamp takes small bits of truth and twists and exaggerates them into fictional account that he puts forth as the whole truth for public consumption.

In a "Memorandum of Concern" the commanding officer of Beauchamp's battalion, Lieutenant Colonel George A. Glaze, wrote in part:

“

The New Republic published an article, authored by you, under your pen name, Scott Thomas. This article contained gross exaggerations and inaccurate allegations of misconduct by Vanguard Soldiers. Your article discredited the service of your fellow Vanguard Soldiers and comrades at arms. Between January 2006 and September 2006, you published sensitive information about your unit's deployment dates on your personal web log. By placing this sensitive information in the public domain, you jeopardized the lives of Vanguard Soldiers and the Vanguard mission.

So, we have a magazine that has employed plagiarists, liars and Soviet spies trying to carry on Obama's latest lie. These guys are just part of the Praetorian Press, the palace guard for Democrats. We need to keep exposing them as such.

I highly doubt that Obama would agree to anything that could benefit the NRA. I think that the Red Cross/Hurricane Sandy funds would be a more likely cause, because it wouldn't be partisan.

If it is for a non-partisan charity, who cares who wins the match? Even if such an event happened and she won, all it proves is she can shoot a gun better than he can. BFD.

Non-partisan fartisan. The left wing has never done anything non-partisan in their history. BTW, what's wrong with the NRA? They promote responsible gun ownership, gun and hunter safety, education and many other positive aspects of gun ownership including skeet shooting, which Bronco Billy claims to 'do all the time'.

And as far as your Hurricane Sandy suggestion, Bronco's regime has mismanaged the hell out of that already. Do you suggest sending more money to be mismanaged by The Incompetent One?

"The beauty of the Second Amendment is that you won't need it until they try to take it away."---Thomas Jefferson